Dartmouth Readmissions Report Shows Scant Progress

Slow progress in reducing rates of 30-day hospital readmissions is partly explained "by the way healthcare systems have invested and the way they've built themselves over the years," says one of the study's principal investigators.

One frustration in the healthcare improvement world is when old data is presented as if it is new news. Perhaps the headline should read "Dartmouth Readmissions Report Shows Scan Progress Three Years Ago"?